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Dave Ferguson

@daveferguson.bsky.social

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Not as bad as you might think. Tangential. Instructional design, job aids, Ensampler.com. May be related to Alistair MacLeod. Francophonesque. Pic: Dad. Chì mi Ceap Breatuinn, mo luaidh, Fada bhuam, thar an t-sàil.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 2h

Better still: have the users report.

-- training guy whose career has included putting lots of Clearasil on IT zits.

Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 7h

"Develop a plan to march on Moscow."
"Tell me how to win a land war in China."

Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 7h

Except people who'd like to stand up.

Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 7h

"In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 9h

Usually I'm happy not to carry the decimal to fourteen places when I'm dealing with amounts under a million dollars.

Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 9h

From CaptainCalculator.com:

A screen shot of an online calculation. The title is "Percentage Decrease Calculator."

The first line is labeled "starting number," and the number given is 242.
The next line is labeled "decrease amount," and the number given is 232.
The third line is labeled "percent decrease." The calculated answer runs to fourteen decimal places. Rounded off, the answer would be 95.87%.

(The full answer is 95..86776859504133 percent.)

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 1d

Judge Chamberlain Haller: "Mr. Gambini, what is a 'yute?'"

It's a Republican not yet claiming Social Security, your honor.

Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 1d

...in the midst of which we learned that Hyde had had an affair with a married woman 12 years younger.

Hyde referred to this as a "youthful indiscretion." It began when he was 41 and lasted four years.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 1d

None of this "Young Republican" stuff is surprising, including the crocodile tears and professional lamentations of nonentities like J. D. Vance.

Henry Hyde, whose NPR obit (!) praised him as "a forceful advocate for maintaining the dignity of the House," led the Clinton impeachment effort...

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 1d

Well, he’s not going to start paying for things *now.*

Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 1d

The Torah (this cradle Catholic learned from a rabbi) has 36 separate instructions to care for the stranger among you — more than to observe the Sabbath.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t hire *yourself.*.

Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 1d

…Wash yourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds from before my eyes; cease doing evil; learn to do good.

Make justice your aim: redress the wronged, hear the orphan’s plea, defend the widow.

(Isaiah 1)

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 1d

“What do I care for the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD.

I have had enough of whole-burnt rams and fat of fatlings;
In the blood of calves, lambs, and goats I find no pleasure…

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 1d

Tim Pool is 39.

Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 1d

Shades of Henry Hyde and his youthful indiscretions.

Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 1d

The only way Eric Trump could have four friends is if he bought a Quaker meeting house and the deed said he had to retain the tenants.

Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 1d

It comports with his own animatronic self.

Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 2d

Minor lordling worth a mere $600 million: “Of course we need kings! Who else gives out titles?”

Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like he took smile lessons from the three Trumplings.

Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 3d

How could they miss:

KAVANAUGH:
STOP!

Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 3d

Like an ICE goon cares about "certified" papers.

They've got a quota to meet. And when this all blows up, they'll all have been out of town whenever a Kavanaugh Stop happened.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 3d

As if all the erstwhile Proud Boys and other new hires would be able, much less willing, to recognize a certificate of citizenship or certificate of naturalization.

Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 3d

The INS attorney who gave me my certificate *strongly* urged me to get a passport, which he said would be far earlier to replace than the citizenship papers. I had the passport within three weeks.

Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 3d

I did *have* my green card, though usually at home in a drawer. I'm not sure that at, say, 27, a card issued two decades before, with a photo from slightly earlier, would have convinced an INS agent who wasn't inclined to be convinced.